Agriculture around Huancayo

The potato harvests are starting now, which means that people are out en masse helping their neighbours dig up, sort, and pack their potatoes. The potato fields, which at look like this when in full growth:

are stripped and emptied from now until May:

There is an organic orchard not far from Huancayo, where they grow pears, apples, peaches, tunas, various fruits, vegetables, flowers, corn, potatoes, wheat, barley...and...raspberries! Whenever we visit we are invited to sample the freshly-picked fruit, sip teas made with their herbs, and munch on homemade bread and jam. It's great.

Most farmers also have animals, and use their waste as fertilizer. We're putting together workshops on how to process the manure into organic fertilizer,